Tag: Smart Cities

Monitoring the Impact of Health Outbreaks with Smarter Cities

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The Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University has developed an interactive web-based dashboard, to visualize and track reported cases in real-time. The dashboard illustrates the location and number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries for all affected countries. It was developed to provide researchers, public health authorities and the general public with a user-friendly tool to track the outbreak as it unfolds. This along with other adjacent data sources can be used to effectively monitor and aid in the reduction of this and other outbreaks from spreading. China has reacted quickly to respond to the monitoring of the spread of this outbreak and Reuters reports that this could be forward looking to reshaping China’s smart cities.

Ohio municipality, Cincinnati Bell form smart city partnership to provide free public WiFi

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Wyoming, Ohio is the first small city in Hamilton County to implement a smart city solution. Partnering with Cincinnati Bell to realize a “smart city” vision and ignite economic growth, and bring free public WiFi to the municipality as part of a broader effort to ignite economic growth. The municipality installed a smart city solution with WiFi coverage in the central business district, the village green, and the municipality’s Crescent Park. The community may log on through a splash page at “Wyoming Free WiFi.”

Three of the Smartest Buildings in the World and How They Forecast the Future of Commercial Development

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In order to capitalize on new tenant office demands, developers require an IoT infrastructure that is purpose-built, scalable, and fully customizable. Tenants and employees are looking for office spaces that foster collaboration and can adapt to their changing workflows. Connectivity also is a driving factor; a survey conducted by WiredScore discovered that 75% of tenants consider poor internet connectivity to impact company profitability, and 84% of tenants would pay more per square foot for their space if an owner could prove a building has reliable connectivity.

Digital twins: Bridging the physical and digital

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Digital twins are multiplying as their capabilities grow. But realizing their full promise may require integrating data across entire ecosystems. Today, companies are using digital twin capabilities in a variety of ways. For example, in remarkable feat of smart-city management, Singapore uses a detailed virtual model of itself in urban planning, maintenance, and disaster readiness projects.

The Top 5 Ways Municipal Fiber Networks Can Help Communities

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While many communities across the country are already using fiber optic cables to connect traffic signals and sites, more and more municipal communities are using fiber-optic networks to create connections and advantages for their community and its residents, including helping communities rebound from weather, attract and stimulate new business, attract and retain residents, reduce dependency on communications companies, and prepare communities for the future.

Smart City: Only Feasible with Fiber Optics

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The digital infrastructures of a smart city cannot be networked by radio alone. Information and data volumes as well as time-critical applications are constantly increasing due to digitalization and urbanization. Ultimately, only a fiber optic infrastructure can meet the communication and performance requirements of a smart city. So fiber optic networks form the foundation walls of a smart city.

Smart buildings – what’s the value to smart cities? Part Two

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While the benefits and Return on Investment (ROI) of smart buildings are well documented for tenants, building owners and operators, similar information for cities are limited at best. In addition, cities measure the benefits and ROI of smart buildings differently, and look beyond financial metrics. Part Two provides a framework for identifying areas of value creation and share a sample set of values and benefits for cities.

The 14 pillars of a smart city

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The urgent mandates issued to cities in areas such as climate change and rapid urbanisation are frequently discussed under the rubric of “smart cities” but just what constitutes a smart city is elusive. A successful smart strategy should take a holistic approach encompassing people, institutions, structures and operations across the connected ecosystem that makes up the city or community.